Help with grub.

[dibl]

Re: Help with grub.

It's not possible to see which of your partitions is actually the root partition. For fun, you could try change (hd0,0) to (hd0,2) in the menu.lst file, and see what happens when you try to boot.

[franklampard]

Re: Help with grub.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ df -h -T
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs tmpfs 506M 33M 473M 7% /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/volatile
tmpfs tmpfs 506M 33M 473M 7% /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/volatile
varrun tmpfs 506M 104K 506M 1% /var/run
varlock tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /var/lock
udev tmpfs 506M 104K 506M 1% /dev
devshm tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 506M 1.5M 505M 1% /tmp
/dev/hda1 ext3 9.3G 1.9G 6.9G 22% /media/hda1
/dev/hdb1 ext3 113G 2.7G 105G 3% /media/hdb1

[franklampard]

Re: Help with grub.

I'm burning the gparted livecd now, should i try that method to set a flag first ?

[Qqmike]

Re: Help with grub.

Well, he did get at the GRUB prompt (hd0,0) in response to this command:

grub> find /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic

GRUB found it that time.

Puzzling.....

[dibl]

Re: Help with grub.

1.9G does not look like enough for a Kubuntu "/" filesystem! What prompt were you at when you ran that df command?

[franklampard]

Re: Help with grub.

'9.3G total - 1.9G used' ... that's how it looks to me

[Qqmike]

Re: Help with grub.

Good point dibl, about 1.9 GB.

Throwing out another one - - - (but stay with dibl here -- he's still somewhat fresh )

You might try * manually *re-typing that boot entry, the whole thing from title to initrd.
(Back up or copy or print the existing one, of course.)

You have to do this as root and File > Save, File > Quit.

(Sorta relevant: recently I copy/pasted a kernel line from OOo Writer and it did NOT take -- Error 15, so I re-typed it manually, it went . . . we are into crazy now.)

[franklampard]

Re: Help with grub.

'9.3G total - 1.9G used' ... that's how it looks to me

i had a grub konsole already open,i used the 'new session' button.

[dibl]

Re: Help with grub.

Right -- sorry, I wasn't clear. 1.9G is not a full Kubuntu filesystem. Here's my Gutsy output:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 6.0G 3.4G 2.7G 56% /
varrun 2.0G 280K 2.0G 1% /var/run
varlock 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/lock
udev 2.0G 152K 2.0G 1% /dev
devshm 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
lrm 2.0G 14M 2.0G 1% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile

Is part of your Linux filesystem outside the root partition, other than "/home"?

[franklampard]

Re: Help with grub.

Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 ext3 9.3G 1.9G 6.9G 22% /media/hda1

i see now, i setup as follows -
hda1 as '/'
hda2 as swap 1500mb
hda3 as home the rest of the drive.

so i possibly have a corrupt install ?

[Snowhog]

Re: Help with grub.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ df -h -T
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs tmpfs 506M 33M 473M 7% /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/volatile
tmpfs tmpfs 506M 33M 473M 7% /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/volatile
varrun tmpfs 506M 104K 506M 1% /var/run
varlock tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /var/lock
udev tmpfs 506M 104K 506M 1% /dev
devshm tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 506M 1.5M 505M 1% /tmp
/dev/hda1 ext3 9.3G 1.9G 6.9G 22% /media/hda1
/dev/hdb1 ext3 113G 2.7G 105G 3% /media/hdb1

dibl / Qqmike -

Here is my df -h -T output:

paul@paul-toshiba-laptop:~$ df -h -T
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 ext3 7.9G 2.9G 4.6G 39% /
varrun mpfs 502M 108K 501M 1% /var/run
varlock tmpfs 502M 0 502M 0% /var/lock
procbususb usbfs 502M 164K 501M 1% /proc/bus/usb
udev tmpfs 502M 164K 501M 1% /dev
devshm tmpfs 502M 0 502M 0% /dev/shm
lrm tmpfs 502M 33M 469M 7% /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/volatile
/dev/sda5 ext3 43G 321M 41G 1% /home
/dev/sda1 ntfs 1.5G 139M 1.4G 10% /media/sda1
/dev/disk/by-uuid/0842EF0542EEF67A
fuseblk 57G 14G 43G 25% /media/vista

The location of / is show. Given that franklampard's output shows no / point, I'd say that is a problem.

[Qqmike]

Re: Help with grub.

Mine shows 2.5 GB used for one and 2.6 GB used for another.

His doesn't show / because he got it using a live CD, mounted, so it shows the mount point.

He's got no boot flag set.

Ad then, maybe re-typing the boot entry is left.

Not sure what.

[franklampard]

Re: Help with grub.

perhaps i should unmount partition hda1 from livecd and retry df -h -T

[dibl]

Re: Help with grub.

Frank, I'm gonna be the heavy and suggest that something is actually wrong with your installed Kubuntu system. It should be substantially more than 1.9GB -- as Qqmike and Snowhog's reports say, along with mine.

Save/backup your data, make an Alternate Install CD if you want to. Use your new GParted Live CD to format that /dev/sda1 partition to ext3, and then do a new installation. If you want to mount your "/home" partition on /dev/sda3 that should work fine.

Sorry, I don't know what's wrong with it, but something definitely is.

[Qqmike]

Re: Help with grub.

I was going to ask, when you turn on the PC, you don't even see a boot menu (from which to choose Kubuntu)?

(and dibl has a point)